Many specialists have long been involved in the development of the Russian-speaking sector of the Internet, but Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich made a special contribution to this matter. It was he who, along with his friend, founded the search company Yandex. This event was preceded by a thorough study of existing information selection algorithms and their subsequent modernization.
Ilya Segalovich: biography
The famous programmer was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, and it happened on September 13, 1964.
In 1981, he began his studies at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute at the Department of Geophysics.
Four years after graduation, Ilya began working for Arkadia. In it, he served as the head of the software group. It is worth mentioning that the company itself specialized in developing applications for the implementation of a full-fledged morphological search for textual information.
In the 90s, Ilya, along with his classmate and friend Arkady Volzh, began creating technology for searching for unstructured data. It was decided to call this technique Yandex. In a couple of years, the same company was founded by the same guys.
Until 2000, Ilya Segalovich worked as head of the search engine department at CompTek International.
In 1997, Ilya, together with his wife, founded the Children of Mary rehabilitation art center. The purpose of his organization was to provide social assistance to children with disabilities and orphans.
2003 was marked for the programmer by the transition to the post of technical director of Yandex.
In 2011, the co-founder of the search company took an active part in the social movement against falsification of the election process.
July 25, 2013 on the Internet appeared the first news of the death of Ilya Segalovich. A few hours later, the media reported that the man was in a coma, and his life support system is supported by an artificial life support system.
On July 27, a public figure was finally disconnected from the apparatus and the fact of death was recorded.
Charity
The founder of Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, was married to the artist Maria Eliseeva, who founded the tradition in their family to help needy children. It all started with the fact that a woman invited a group of people to speak at a boarding school in the capital: activist, clown Patch Adams and a doctor from America. Then, in the organization of such meetings, friends and beloved spouse began to help her.
Already in 1993, an art studio was opened for children with disabilities and orphans, which in the future turned into a well-known rehabilitation center.
Ilya Segalovich not only replaced his wife as the head of the charitable organization Children of Mary, but also took an active part in the performances.
At first he arranged children's parties in shelters, then he purposefully worked for the benefit of orphans from his wife's art studio.
Ilya Segalovich is not only a leading programmer, but also a volunteer of Yandex. Since 2006, company employees have made visits to orphanages and shelters traditional. They visited not only children in the capital, but also traveled to various Russian cities.
Rules of work from a professional
Ilya Segalovich believed that nothing can be done without a sense of hurry, otherwise you just can’t come to the finish line first. And you’ll hardly be the second if you don’t have the feeling that the work needs to be done right here and now.
He was never afraid to hire people smarter than himself. The programmer did not consider himself a great genius, and this allowed him not to relax.
A person may be smart, but this does not mean that he will never make a mistake. Even a recognized genius can do nonsense. It is only important to recognize the mistake in time and acknowledge it.
Ilya Segalovich: cause of death
July 25, 2013 the death of Ilya Segalovich ’s brain was recorded. He was immediately connected to the apparatus of artificial life support.
Later it turned out that the co-founder of Yandex fell into a coma. After that, he lived for almost three days.
In the fall of 2012, Segalovich was diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer with metastases. The course of chemotherapy helped Ilya continue to be active. For him, they found a good doctor who was able to choose the right medicine, and the programmer's body was very susceptible to chemistry. Ilya Segalovich literally came to life.
But it turned out that the cancer spread to the lining of the brain. And literally in a couple of days it just “burned out”.
So the founder of the Yandex company passed away.